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Price tag for Prairie Village Harmon Park improvements going up

Prairie Village Harmon Park price tag increases due to construction costs.
The Prairie Village Harmon Park price tag increased by $845,000 due to construction costs, city staff told the city council last week. Above, a conceptual rendering of the treehouse-style playset. Image via city documents.

The price tag for improvements to Prairie Village’s Harmon Park is going up substantially.

The project, centered around building a new inclusive playground as well as revamping the park’s pavilion and restrooms, was originally estimated to cost about $2.2 million.

The total cost for the improvements has now gone up to slightly more than $3 million, City Engineer Melissa Prenger told the city council last week, driven in large part by higher-than-expected costs for designing and building the new playground.

New playground is now expected to cost $1.6M

  • Prenger said the city originally budgeted just over $1 million for design and construction of the inclusive playset.
  • But rising construction costs, as well as bids that came in higher than the city estimated, have pushed the total price of the new playset to roughly $1.6 million.
  • The city hopes to begin work on that leg of the Harmon Park improvements later this year.
Prairie Village Harmon Park price tag increases.
An aerial rendering of the new and improved Harmon Park play area. Image via city documents.

How the city plans to pay for this

  • Prenger said the city will now need to pull money originally slated for the the pavilion and restroom improvements in 2024 in order to help cover the increased costs to building the new playground this year.
  • To cover that, she said the city plans to shift more than $300,000 in 2024 Harmon Park improvement funds to this year, supplemented by $75,000 from the city’s ADA reserve fund and $228,00 from the city’s park reserve fund.
  • In turn, to cover funds for the 2024 improvements, the city will now need to increase the pavilion project costs in the 2024 Capital Infrastructure Program plan by $542,000.
Prairie Village Harmon Park improvements
A rendering of the treehouse-style Harmon Park playset. Image via city documents.

The city approved 3 contracts for upcoming Harmon Park work

  • The first was a $735,000 contract with All Inclusive Rec for the inclusive playset, a design that was picked by residents through a survey.
  • The city council also approved a $859,000 contract with Combes Construction, LLC, which will include grading and other construction to set up construction of the new playground and playset.
  • Finally, the city council approved a $99,000 contract with BBN Architects, Inc., for the design of the new-look pavilion and restrooms, which will not be constructed until 2024.

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Juliana Garcia
Juliana Garcia

? Hi! I’m Juliana Garcia, and I cover Prairie Village and northeast Johnson County for the Johnson County Post.

I grew up in Roeland Park and graduated from Shawnee Mission North before going on to the University of Kansas, where I wrote for the University Daily Kansan and earned my bachelor’s degree in  journalism. Prior to joining the Post in 2019, I worked as an intern at the Kansas City Business Journal.

Have a story idea or a comment about our coverage you’d like to share? Email me at juliana@johnsoncountypost.com.

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